Henry M. Coxe, III - Bedell, Dittmar, Devault, Pillans & Coxe, P.A.
HENRY M. COXE, III received his undergraduate degree from The University of the South (Sewanee) and law degree from Washington & Lee University. He joined the State Attorney’s Office in Jacksonville in 1973, where he served as director of all felony divisions, and the special prosecution division (complex crimes). From 1981 to 1996 he managed his own law firm, practicing criminal defense and administrative law. He joined the Bedell firm in 1996.
Mr. Coxe has been active in legal issues at the local, state and national level for many years. He served as President of The Jacksonville Bar Association (1995-96); Chairman of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission (1987-91); member of the First District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission (1994-96); and charter member of the Florida Bench/Bar Commission. He serves on the Board of Directors of Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, as a Master of The Chester Bedell Inn of Court, and has chaired the Disciplinary Grievance Committee of the U.S. District Court, Jacksonville Division. He is the immediate-past President of The Florida Bar, having served on the Board of Governors from 1995-2005 and the Executive Committee from 1999-2006. He became President-elect in 2005 and was sworn in as President on June 23, 2006.
Mr. Coxe has been a Board Certified Criminal Trial Lawyer Since 1988, and for many years has been listed under that specialty in Naifeh and Smith’s “The Best Lawyers in America.” He has been the recipient of The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award, named the Financial Daily News & Daily Record Lawyer of the Year, recipient of The Florida Bar President’s Award of Merit, the ABOTA President’s Award, and Jacksonville Area Legal Aid’s Justice for All Award. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Delegate to the American Bar Association.
Mr. Coxe’s practice focuses on criminal defense in both state and federal courts, and he has often served as special counsel to the Florida Board of Bar Examiners.
Coxe is married to Mary Cousar Coxe, a graduate of Wellesley College and Duke University Law School, who practices family law. They have three children: Katie, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Florida College of Law; Matson, who graduated from Vanderbilt University; and Anne, who attends Davidson College in North Carolina.
Audrey McKibbin Moran - Senior Vice President for Social Responsibility and Community Advocacy, Baptist Health
Audrey has served as Chief of Staff for Mayor John Delaney and as Director of Legislative Affairs for Mayor Ed Austin. She has also served as Managing Director and Special Counsel for the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission. From 2004 to 2007 she was President of Moran Mediation Group.
In 2008, Jacksonville’s Mayor John Peyton charged Audrey with the task of leading the Positive Youth Development Subcommittee of The Jacksonville Journey: A Comprehensive Community-Wide Anti-Crime Initiative. Audrey is also a trustee of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, a $325 million charitable grant-making organization. She currently serves on the Board of Visitors for the Florida Coastal School of Law and is a member of Downtown Rotary and the Jacksonville Women’s Network. She has previously served as Chairman of the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida, Executive Board Member of the Schultz Center for Teaching and Leadership and on the Board of Directors of Baptist Medical Center. She was Chairman of the Downtown Development Authority and an inaugural member of the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission.
In 2001, Audrey received the Klechak Award for Downtown Advocacy and in 2003 she received the Rotary Good Government Award. She has been chosen as a Gateway Girl Scout Council Woman of Distinction and in 1998 she was the first woman selected to receive the Jacksonville Bar Association’s Lawyer of the Year award. In 2004 Audrey was honored with Leadership Jacksonville’s Community Trustee award.
Audrey is married to the Honorable John A. Moran, II and they have four children.
Paul I. Perez - Chief Compliance Officer, Fidelity Naitonal Financia, Inc.
Paul I. Perez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1955. He is one of six children of the late Pablo I. and Marta L. Perez. His parents immigrated from Cuba in late 1960 and Paul grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, where he attended Bishop Kenny High School (graduated in 1972) and Jacksonville University from 1972 to 1976. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Jacksonville University, majoring in history and international affairs. He obtained a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of Florida in December 1978. He graduated with honors from law school at George Washington University in February 1984.
After law school, Mr. Perez clerked for the Honorable John H. Moore II, United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, from 1984 to 1985. Before joining the United States Attorney’s Office in 1989, he practiced bankruptcy and securities litigation at Smith & Hulsey, P.A. in Jacksonville, Florida. From 1989 to 1992, as a federal prosecutor, he successfully prosecuted significant international forfeiture and money laundering cases. Before returning to the United States Attorney’s Office in March 2002, he was a partner at Booth, Arnold & Perez, where he had a general civil and criminal trial and appellate practice in state and federal courts.
On January 28, 2002, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, nominated Mr. Perez to become the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida. The U.S. Senate, by unanimous vote, confirmed Mr. Perez on March 8, 2002, and he was sworn into office by Chief Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich on March 18, 2002. Mr. Perez was the chief law enforcement officer for the Middle District, which encompasses 35 counties and is home to 8.3 million Floridians. As the United States Attorney, he supervised more than 100 Assistant United States Attorneys that conduct the prosecution of criminal cases brought by the federal government, the prosecution and defense of civil cases in which the United States is a party, and the collection of debts owed the federal government which are administratively uncollectible.
In April 2007, Mr. Perez became Chief Compliance Officer for Fidelity National Financial and is responsible for ensuring the Company’s adherence to federal, state statutes, other regulations and the Company’s code of conduct throughout the vast Fidelity national title insurance organization.
Mr. Perez is a resident of Atlantic Beach, Florida where he lives with his wife and their three children.
Kenneth L. Shropshire - David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Kenneth L. Shropshire is the David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Shropshire has written extensively about the sports industry, including several award-winning books. His past consulting roles have included a wide variety of projects including work for the National Football League, the United States Olympic Committee, negotiation training for Fannie Mae and Major League Baseball and diversity training for entering Wharton School MBA students. The Mayor of Philadelphia appointed Shropshire to chair Philadelphia’s Stadium Site Selection Committee, and he is currently involved in a project assessing whether Philadelphia should bid for the 2024 Olympic Games. After receiving an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford University and law degree from Columbia University Law School he practiced law in Los Angeles and later served as an executive with the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee leading up to the 1984 Olympics. Shropshire has provided commentary for a number of media outlets including Nightline, CNN, The New York Times, USA Today, National Public Radio and Sports Illustrated. He is a featured speaker on a wide range of topics and conducts workshops on negotiations as well as on diversity. He currently serves as chairman of the Legal Studies department. Shropshire joined the Wharton faculty in 1986 and specializes in sports business, negotiations, diversity and general business law. He teaches the Negotiation and Dispute Resolution course both at Wharton’s main campus in Philadelphia and at Wharton West in San Francisco.
Barbara "Babs" Strickland - The Suddath Companies
Barbara “Babs” Suddath Strickland is currently vice president and secretary of The Suddath Companies, Suddath Van Lines, Inc., Central Worldwide of California, Inc., Sentry Household Shipping, Inc. and other subsidiaries of The Suddath Companies, specializing in household moving, freight forwarding, logistics and warehousing. Ms. Strickland is a corporate attorney and was formerly a partner at Mahoney, Adams and Criser, P.A, (which merged with McGuire Woods Battle and Booth, P.A). She is a member of the Florida and Virginia Bar Associations and was a member of the Executive Council, Business Section (1991-93). Ms. Strickland has also served on the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce as chairman of the International Development Board; Chamber of Commerce board of Governors and has been a member of the Jacksonville Port Authority since February, 1992; vice chairman (October 1993-October 1995); chairman (October 1995-October 1997). She is a member-manager of Grassy Knob Lands, LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company involved in land management and development of an education working forest. Strickland received her bachelors degree in French from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1967, a master degree in French Literature in 1971 and doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1976. She obtained her law degree from the University of Virginia in 1983.
Paul Vance - Of Counsel, Foley & Lardner
Paul Vance is Of Counsel to the law firm of Foley & Lardner.
Paul joined the Jaguars as General Counsel in 1994 after over twenty years of private practice in Connecticut. He was promoted to Senior Vice President Football Operations and General Counsel in November, 2001. As the head of Football Operations, he was responsible for the Jaguars’ salary cap strategy and planning and player contract negotiations. He also oversaw the team training and medical functions, the team video and equipment departments and team travel and logistics.
Prior to coming to Jacksonville, Paul was in private practice in Connecticut with the firm of Cummings & Lockwood. His practice there focused on the corporate, real estate and tax areas, with emphasis on transactional matters. Since coming to Jacksonville, he has been Of Counsel with the Jacksonville office of Foley & Lardner, which serves as the primary law firm of the Jaguars. He is admitted to practice in Connecticut and Florida and is a member of the American, Connecticut, Florida and Jacksonville Bar Associations.
Paul graduated from the University of Rochester in 1969 with a degree in economics. While at Rochester, he played baseball and captained the school’s basketball team. He received his J.D. in 1973 from Columbia, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
Among his community activities, he has served on the board of Jacksonville’s Museum of Science and History and the MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation. He is a member of the Business Advisory Council of the University of North Florida Coggin School of Business and a Board Member of the Alliance for a World Class Education. He has also served as a member of the steering committee of Downtown Visions, Inc., which successfully organized a business improvement district in downtown Jacksonville. A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Paul and his wife, Jane, live in Jacksonville. They have four children: daughters, Kerry and Jamie, and sons, Jordan and Derek.
Robert M. Rhodes
Robert M. Rhodes is of counsel to Foley & Lardner LLP in Jacksonville and practices real estate and corporate law. He is the former Executive Vice President of The St. Joe Company and also served as St. Joe’s General Counsel. He previously was a partner in the law firm of Steel Hector & Davis and was Senior Vice President and General Counsel to Arvida Corporation and Disney Development Company, the community-development arms of The Walt Disney Company.
Earlier, he administered Florida’s growth management program and served as counsel to the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and Assistant Director of the Council of State Governments, Washington, DC office. He chaired the Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Commission, the City of Jacksonville’s Downtown Development Authority and Economic Development Commission, and served on the Capital Center Planning Commission.
Bob is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the Florida Homebuilders Housing Hall of Fame.
He is past chair of the Florida Coastal School of Law Board of Advisors and recently was honored as the Jacksonville Daily Record’s Lawyer of the Year. Bob received his law degree from Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and a masters degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School.